The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.
Dont get the bonus disc that comes with this film unless you are an ardent fan. It contains a typical (well rehearsed) 'pretend', around the piano, get together with Andrews, Van Dyke and the composer. Un-interesting conversations with pointless anecdotes. The added 'bonus' story, kids and andrews jump through pavement etc, is an awful and typical American moral cartoon.
Really, remove the bonus disc from your selection and get something else instead. You'll be glad you did.
Mary Poppins The songs, the sets, the accent. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke star as magical nanny and cockernee chinmey sweep respectively in this much-loved, Oscar-garlanded, part-animated musical from Uncle Walt
After her stage triumph as the 'Fair Lady Liza', Andrews failed to get the part on screen, and her movie debut was as Mary Poppins, in a Disney spectacular.
She notched up a Best Actress Oscar, as much for the loss of the other plum part as for her delightful performance as the woman who magically arrives in a conventional British household and transforms the lives of all around her, especially the children, for whom fun and fantasy become part of a new...
